Usually means: Expression using two words, linked.
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  1. hendiadys: Merriam-Webster
  2. hendiadys: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. hendiadys: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. hendiadys: Collins English Dictionary
  5. hendiadys: Vocabulary.com
  6. Hendiadys, hendiadys: Wordnik
  7. hendiadys: Wiktionary
  8. hendiadys: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  9. hendiadys: Infoplease Dictionary
  10. Hendiadys, hendiadys: Dictionary.com
  11. hendiadys: Online Etymology Dictionary
  12. Hendiadys: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  13. Hendiadys: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  14. hendiadys: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  15. hendiadys: Rhymezone
  16. Hendiadys: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  17. hendiadys: Stammtisch Beau Fleuve Acronyms
  18. hendiadys: FreeDictionary.org
  19. hendiadys: The Phrontistery - A Dictionary of Obscure Words
  20. hendiadys: Mnemonic Dictionary
  21. hendiadys: TheFreeDictionary.com

Art (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Silva Rhetoricae: The Forest of Rhetoric (No longer online)
  2. Glossary of Rhetorical Terms with Examples (No longer online)
  3. HENDIADYS: Bobs Byway OF POETIC TERMS

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. hendiadys: A Word A Day

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Definitions from Wiktionary (hendiadys)

▸ noun:  (rhetoric) A figure of speech used for emphasis, where two words joined by and are used to express a single complex idea.

Similar:
syllepsis, figura etymologica, oxymoron, syntheton, synchysis, antithesis, synonymia, polysyndeton, syndeton, homoioptoton, more...

Opposite:
merism, separation of parts, disjunction
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Similar:
syllepsis, figura etymologica, oxymoron, syntheton, synchysis, antithesis, synonymia, polysyndeton, syndeton, homoioptoton, more...

Opposite:
merism, separation of parts, disjunction



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